John Savage

John Savage (22 February 1779-19 October 1863) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 12) from 1815 to 1819, succeeding Elisha I. Winter and Zebulon R. Shipherd and preceding Ezra C. Gross and Nathaniel Pitcher.

Biography
John Savage was born in Salem, New York in 1779, and he became a lawyer in 1800. He served as District Attorney of the Fourth District from 1806 to 1811 and from 1812 to 1815, in the State Assembly in 1814, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1819, as District Attorney of Washington County from 1818 to 1820, as State Comptroller from 1821 to 1823, as Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1823 to 1837, and as a Democratic presidential elector in 1844. He died in 1863.